HR Business Partner

About us

UCL HR is a service driven function of approximately 120 HR professionals, working closely alongside our eleven academic faculties, our nine professional services divisions and the President and Provost’s Offices to understand and collaborate on their priorities, opportunities and challenges.

About the role

We're searching for a candidate with proven HR Business Partnering experience for this job, in which you'll partner with stakeholders in our School of Life and Medical Sciences (LMS.) Things you'll be doing include:

-Working collaboratively with key stakeholders to add value and operationalise strategic people objectives and decisions
-Supporting the implementation of initiatives and activities; advising, coaching and partnering with managers throughout the employment lifecycle
-Providing an organised, timely and proactive service; utilising intelligence and insights to be evidence-based, analytical skills and excellent communication skills
-Acting as the bridge between the client group and the Centres of Expertise within HR
-Line managing, coaching and developing any staff members allocated


A full range of responsibilities can be found on the attached job description.

About you

To do this job you'll need to have significant experience as an HR Business Partner in a large and complex organisation. If this is within the Higher Education, public sector or not profit sector then that's great, but we're very open to candidates from other sorts of organisation.

You'll need:
-Experience of advising and handling a range of complex HR issues (e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, change management, TUPE)
-Knowledge of workforce planning, succession planning and talent management and how they can be effectively implemented
-Experience of developing and implementing people plans and/or HR solutions and is able to demonstrate the difference it made
-Experience of improving engagement and retention of people
-Experience of implementing successful EDI approaches/strategies

Also, experience of working in a unionised environment is ideal. But if you don't have this, but you feel you tick our other boxes, we'd love to hear from you!

Please review the job description carefully and make sure your experience around the areas listed about, and the essential and desirable criteria on the JD, is addressed as fully as possible in your application.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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